"Banger (MOSHPIT)"

After the cartoonish chanting of “Yay Yay” and the plinking shimmy of “Collard Greens”, here’s Schoolboy Q's latest single, “Banger (MOSHPIT)”, a turbulent odyssey of choppy funk guitars and gleeful adlibs. Q notes how quickly an otherwise genial party can go wrong when opposing sides mingle in gangland, but “Banger” is never dark or regretful, as the 26-year-old eschews the realism of something like Habits & Contradictions’ Kendrick Lamar-featuring “Blessed” in favor of pure intimidation (“Facial expressions say surrender when that iron enter”). For now, he’s reveling in his fearlessness.